Shanghai doctor: Liu Xiang achilles tendon injury serious

奥运首席医疗官:刘翔伤愈需1年 复发率几乎100%_网易奥运 via kwout

Chen Shiyi, Head of Huashan hospital division of sports medicine, says that Liu Xiang’s injury has been on-going and is quite serious. The interview with the coaches right after Liu Xiang dropped out hinted at what was wrong with him, how his bone structure etc. led to these particularly thorny achilles tendon issues. Chen says that an injury like Liu Xiang’s will take a whole year to heal and is almost guaranteed to happen again—that is, there is no proven way of making sure it doesn’t come back. In other words, Liu Xiang is going to going to be plagued with this kind of injury throughout the rest of his athletic career.